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Wilda Anderson is a Professor of French and Director of Graduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from Cornell University. Her research focuses on French Enlightenment intellectual history, the interplay between science and literature (particularly 17th-century physics, 18th-century chemistry, and 19th-century heredity theories), the Encyclopédie, and the French Revolution. She also explores digital culture and its impact on literacy, having developed courses using new media. Currently, she is producing a digital variorum edition of Isaac Newton's unpublished manuscript On the Church for the Fondation Bodmer in Switzerland.
Her Spring 2025 course Montesquieu examines his philosophical works, including Lettres persanes and De l'esprit des lois, analyzing Montesquieu's empirical approach to history and political theory. The course emphasizes student-led research through a 20-minute conference-style presentation and a 15-20 page paper.
No awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Her work bridges historical literary analysis with contemporary digital humanities practices.
